Knows? She depends on it, and actively contributes to it.
Ephraim
11108
Itās so gross to me.
Sheās the US Congressional Representative whose district is closest to where I live in Canada (Montreal, Quebec). Her district includes a huge chunk of land along the Canadian border in northern New York. Sheās fully aware that socialized medicine is not the bogeyman that sheās making it out to be, and so are many, many people in her district. This is an appeal to Trumpās base, pure and simple.
Thrag
11109
In todayās GOP violence against political opponents, especially women, is just hilarious.
āI want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it,ā
Itās amazing to see people defending that comment by saying it was just a joke, as if nobody understood that and as if what they were criticizing wasnāt a culture that thinks jokes about violence against women are funny. Apparently it was just a locker room threat of violence, folks.
Iāve got a conservative woman on local media losing her mind that it was just a joke and she doesnāt want a hear a thing after what the Dems have done.
Banzai
11112
āWhatās wrong, you canāt take a jokeā, says every punk ass bully everywhere.
They are such gavel try-hards.
Timex
11114
I feel like people are overplaying their hands by trying to suggest that McCarthyās statements constituted some real threat of violence.
He was joking, but itās just bad taste. He knows that rhetoric would play well with his 1/6/21 base.
RichVR
11116
But what about making joking about assaulting women okay? Normalizing it?
Timex
11117
Yeah, exactly this.
I find it hard to take his statement as actually being something about assaulting a woman.
Like I said, it was a dumb joke, but I feel like folks are overplaying their hands by acting like this was some great offense.
RichVR
11118
Maybe men feel that way about it. How do you think women feel?
138
11119
Maybe itās not a sexist remark, maybe itās ageist!
It was a joke in poor taste, and it would be regardless if it were made against a man or a woman. Iām with @Timex on this one. Letās pick our battles.
Timex
11120
I donāt think women legitimately feel that McCarthy was threatening violence. Maybe they do, but I donāt believe they do.
I honestly believe that partisans are trying to make this into more than it is, and I donāt think it serves a useful purpose. I also feel like this kind of manufactured outrage ultimately weakens the impact of legitimate complaints, when folks make much more over threats of violence, which to be clear, is definitely something we have seen from the GOP.
RichVR
11121
I didnāt mean that women find it threatening. Although some might. I meant, do you think that women are happy about men joking about assaulting them?
138
11122
See also: Trump Derangement Syndrome. And I was guilty of some of that myself, back in the day.
Like I said, we need to pick our battles.
Timex
11123
Also, I feel like McCarthy has such a laundry list of crap to criticize him for, not the least being his overt cowardice in the face of Trump trying to destroy democracy, that getting worked up over this is a distraction.
Rather than worry about this, or act like it was actually a threat of violence as some talking heads are doing, letās put McCarthy under oath and make him talk about what happened on January 6th.
What battles are we picking then?
Because in a thread where absolutely nothing real is ever going to happen impacting the real world Iām not sure why Iām being asked to choose.
Also, chalking anything up to TDS is a get out of jail card republicans then get to throw down on everything. Not unlike trolls who just say for the lulz as if that excuses them for being complete assholes.
Thrag
11125
Does anyone seriously think the comment is not worthy of any derision at all?
It seems thereās a little conflation going on of any booing of the comment in any way with some notion that this the worst thing ever and McCarthy should immediately step down over it harumph!
